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[evwhore]

Heh, for my vegetarian friends, response #2.

via boingboing, Out of Context Science -- sentences taken from scientific papers that are funny out of context. LJ syndication: outofcontextsci

Remember this guy? He sued the DEA, saying that they leaked the video, violating his privacy because "the video's distribution resulted in him becoming the 'target of jokes

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[mattm777]

It's always a bit ironic/weird/amusing when liberals criticize a California Supreme Court opinion for not being sufficiently liberal.

[evwhore]

I can't figure out what you mean.

I'm agreeing with these guys: "The dissenting justices said [SC precedents] shouldn't be extended to modern cell phones that can store huge amounts of data and that the decision allows police 'to rummage at leisure through the wealth of personal and business information that can be carried on a mobile phone or handheld computer merely because the device was taken from an arrestee's person.'"

[mattm777]

I guess the point was that the California SC is one of the most liberal courts you'll find east of Maryland (the 9th Circuit is worse and maybe the Hawaii SC). They issue a decision (which I haven't read) that is not the knee-jerk liberal reaction (in this case, a less expansive view of 4th Amendment rights) and they get jumped on for not being liberal enough. I just find that funny.

[evwhore]

the California SC is one of the most liberal courts you'll find east of Maryland

ITYM west, but sure...

They issue a decision (which I haven't read) that is not the knee-jerk liberal reaction (in this case, a less expansive view of 4th Amendment rights)

I'm still not comprehending. Wouldn't you *expect* liberals to complain about a conservative ruling no matter what the provenance? It seems to me irony/humor would be if a liberal court issued a liberal ruling and liberals disagreed with it for being *too* liberal (in a "what do you want/make up your mind" sort of way).

(Anyway I'm sure you agree that in this whole exchange we are of course glossing over that there are many gradations of liberal and conservative and also that people have opinions on many different axes that cannot all be neatly aligned into a liberal-vs-conservative paradigm)

[mattm777]

You're right about the typo.

I guess the point was that the California SC churns out all sorts of left-leaning decisions on all manner of subjects then having its "constituents" turning on it for one of its more conservative decisions (whether right or wrong). It's almost like getting offered $1,000,000 and holding out for $1,000,005 (bad analogy I know but that's the point). It made me laugh.

[evwhore]

Ah, ok, now it makes sense. So your angle is more "We already consistently give you all these other liberal rulings, cut us some slack if we go conservative once in a while"?

[mattm777]

That's the point I was trying to make.